Nowadays, rosary is very popular both as a religious practice and as an ornament for people who are pursuing fashion. Then when it comes to rosary, many people have equated her with Buddhism, and they are more famous for their "beads". I don't know that the practice of Taoism is also useful to rosary. I really sang the phrase "The world is good, the Buddha says it, the world is famous for the mountains." Can this be true? In fact, the opposite is true.
Rosary is not created by Buddhism. There is no rosary in the instruments made in the Buddha era, and it is not included in the "Beiqi 18 Things". The chantings worn by the Buddhist scriptures are mostly from the classics of Mahayana Buddhism (especially the secret education) in the late Sui and Tang Dynasties, such as "The Buddha Says the Wooden Sutras", "The School of the Numbers of Zhuzhu De Jing", "Jin Gangding Yoga Rosary" and so on. The original Buddhism of the South, such as the present-day Buddhists in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, rarely have rosary holders. The earliest use of rosary in Chinese Buddhism, and it is clearly recorded in the Tang Dynasty, the Pure Land of the Tang Dynasty, the Taoist "Continued Gao Biography" records: Daosheng was born in the Northern Qihe Qing Dynasty (562 years), he read Amitabha 70,000 times a day. Limited. And widely persuaded the common believers to praise, to count the number of beans, each name will be a next, and the number of times, accumulated hundreds of miles. Among them, the top ones have eight or ninety stones, the medium ones have fifty stones, and the least ones have twenty stones. Later, he taught people to wear wooden bearers for a number of beads, and he also wore rosary beads for the four people to use for Buddha.
Rosary (also known as the number of beads) is basically used in the practice of various religions. In addition to the Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and other religions have their own rosary, such as Taoist rosary, there are 81, representing the Taijun Laojun eighty-one, Catholic There are 59 rose rosary beads, which are used to recite the "Renaissance of the Virgin", the rosary of Islam, there are 33, and the turn of the circle is exactly 99, which is the ninety-nine names used to recite "Allah Allah" Buddhism's rosary is generally 108, representing 108 kinds of troubles. With the difference of religion and the difference in the number of beads, the unique meaning of the rosary is given.
The rosary of Taoism was first called "drop beads." "Tai Shang San Yuan Liu Zhu Jing" cloud: "The white pearls are used, the round is clear, the number is 365, and the number of the stars is 6.5, the degree of the stars, the date of the sun and the moon." Xuan Jin locks the flow of beads to lead the cloud ": staying up late, the sun is infinite, like the water is flowing, the stars are like beads, so the beads are also flowing."
Due to the inherent "natural and human" thinking of Taoism, the flow beads are also referred to in the human body, such as "The Upper Qing Dynasty Huangting Internal Jingjing" cloud: "If you get the Sangong Cun Xuan Dan, too first-class Zhuan Kunlun, The twelve rings of the pavilion are all true people. From this, the Taoist rosary was mainly used in the early days, especially in the practice of the Qing dynasty, mainly for internal refining and for the use of legal letters.
